tricksy
Americanadjective
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Also given to tricks; mischievous; playful; prankish.
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difficult to handle or deal with.
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Archaic. tricky; crafty; wily.
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Archaic. fashionably trim; spruce; smart.
adjective
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playing tricks habitually; mischievous
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crafty or difficult to deal with
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archaic well-dressed; spruce; smart
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Psychological coherence takes a back seat to tricksy plotting.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 6, 2022
“Easy Feedback Form” even appeared in the credits of 2021’s hit collectible card game Inscryption — a means for developer Daniel Mullins to fine-tune the tricksy, playfully meta title.
From The Verge • Jun. 29, 2022
She keeps the Polaroid picture of herself and her friends, taken by a tricksy hitchhiker in the 1974 film, on her dashboard visor.
From Salon • Feb. 19, 2022
Besides being a deliciously sardonic tale of reversals and comeuppance, “Ezra Slef” pays deft homage to Nabokov, Borges, Flann O’Brien and numerous other tricksy writers.
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2021
"The black crow is a tricksy bird. I trust him not."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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